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It’s Leigh On Sea.
Kev | 25.06.23 - 8:13 a.m. | #
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On the TV news recently it was nice to see people sitting on the sandy beaches that appear at low tide along the South Bank of the around the Thames National Theatre area
John | 25.06.23 - 8:14 a.m. | #
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As a lad we used to take a steam train from Gravesend to Allhallows. Gravesend may have had a bit of a beach but it didn’t have the ultimate draw - an arcade of slot machines!
Rog | 25.06.23 - 8:48 a.m. | #
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Interesting that Which? discount Thorney Bay because of its inaccessibility by public transport. That would also disqualify Allhallows.
Of course, being Which?, you would expect some sort of quality rating, but (as you say) the question was simply Which is the closest beach to London?
There are other good beaches closer than Frinton on Sea, such as Whitstable and Herne Bay. Perhaps Which? is run by the London taxi drivers of old (who, it is said, would not go south of the river).
Man of Kent | 25.06.23 - 8:55 a.m. | #
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Folkestone and Brighton are quicker by public transport than Frinton-on-Sea, and personally I'd prefer either of them.
martin'O'holcombe | 25.06.23 - 9:36 a.m. | #
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A nice canter through possible contendors. If sand were a pre-requisite to being a beach, though, I'm not sure Brighton would get much of a look-in, nor any of its immediate neighbours.
cau1khead | 25.06.23 - 9:49 a.m. | #
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Given the amount of raw sewage pumped into the sea by the water companies, the best answer is possibly somewhere in France
Ian | 25.06.23 - 10:27 a.m. | #
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Man of Kent: London taxi drivers used to take several hundred children to Margate in summer each year. The convoy of black cabs travelling at speed along the A2/M2 was a striking sight.
David Cook | 25.06.23 - 10:31 a.m. | #
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Sixty years ago Gravesend had a good sandy beach with many chalky pebbles. It had a promenade, 'The Gordon Promenade', with ornamental gardens behind it. My Grandparents thought it was the best day out and always travelled there on the Green Line Coach. It was certainly still sandy in the sixties. I believe the sand vanished as ships for Tilbury docks and power stations became larger and scoured the channel.
Alan JS | 25.06.23 - 10:34 a.m. | #
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Thanks for giving a name to the beach I passed yesterday - Folly House Beach!
It was indeed in use but from the excitable hub-bub reaching us from his companions, I fear one teen may have been adding to the raw sewerage count in the river!
Cornish Cockney | 25.06.23 - 10:45 a.m. | #
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Bermondsey Beach is just upriver from Deptford!
Chris | 25.06.23 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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It isn't that long ago (within living memory) that you could have taken a day trip by steamer to Southend for a shilling or so including breakfast!
Putters | 25.06.23 - 11:39 a.m. | #
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At just 11 miles distant from Charing Cross, don't discount High Beach.
Frank F | 25.06.23 - 11:53 a.m. | #
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Well there's a surprise. Someone else adopting the same commenter name I've used for several years (but then Kent's a big county).
Thorney Bay, so inaccessible by public transport that a bus stops next to it every hour (every 90 minutes on Sundays) which links it directly to Benfleet station.
Allhallows, one direct and one indirect bus each every two hours (but just two hourly on Sunday), links it to Rochester station.
"Inaccessible" and "direct train from London" aren't the same thing.
Shout out for Warden Bay while we are at it.
Man of Kent (the original) | 25.06.23 - 11:57 a.m. | #
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That advert and the first sentence of today’s post… absolute Diamond Geezer catnip.
Marc | 25.06.23 - 12:13 p.m. | #
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The other issue with Ruislip Lido beach is.......you are not allowed to go in the water!!
MikeK | 25.06.23 - 1:17 p.m. | #
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As someone recently pointed out on Twitter, the Strand is so named because it was where boats were beached, before the embankments were built.
Bob L-S | 25.06.23 - 2:47 p.m. | #
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Wow that's weird. Was in Leigh on Sea yesterday, pondered in a bar what the settlement across the water was. Found on Google Maps it was All-Hallows which I'd never heard of. Lo and behold you've written about it today!
Sean | 25.06.23 - 8:14 p.m. | #
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